The following essays, contributed by a very diverse group of international scholars, represent an attempt to provide new perspectives and material on a wide range of topics within the purview of German-Jewish literary and cultural relations in the period between the Enlightenment and the rise of Nazism in Central Europe. As we move inexorably farther and farther away from this time, contemporary access to its complex web of literary and cultural relations and to its internal confrontations and accommodations becomes ever more problematical. It may be hoped that this volume as a whole will militate against any easy acceptance of generalizations and over simplications, which sometimes characterize public and even academic discourse about topics included here, as well as point the way to new perspectives on this phase of German-Jewish literary and cultural relations.